Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
I finally got around to posting the first batch of links in the Resources section. There will be more to follow as I hope for that section to be somewhat exhaustive.
I'm also happily accepting recommendations for links, so if there's any links I've missed that may be useful, feel free ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
It's 12:30 a.m. and we are officially online. So hello and welcome. We hope you find us a useful resource in the years to come.
We still have some work to do on the site, but things are coming along, so please try to excuse any wayward links or vacant space. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc, famous for the backdoor suite Back Orifice) enter the news again bringing attention this time to using Google as a tool for reconnaissance and assessment with the release of Gulag. While this hacking technique isn't new - Google Hacking has been well documented by ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
ThinkProgress.org picked up on an article originally published in the Wall Street Journal noting that the Bush administration is pushing for their wiretapping black box sensors to be installed in private corporations. Three reasons why this isn't very smart: 1) controls and regulations, 2) it would provide more points of ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Well, well, well. It will be interesting to see whether businesses will be backing away from desktop encryption. While the hard work of the folks at Princeton University showed nothing is impenetrable, disk based encryption methods can still provide a level of security that surpasses unencrypted filesystems. There is no ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
SANS was all over this right after Christmas. I'm glad to see it getting a bit more press and must admit that Deborah Gage's write-up lacks the confusion we typically see in the media reporting of incidents. (Although I guess the media confusion applies to all subject matter.) If an ...
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